Hosting Mercurial HG via VisualSVN Server

Question

I have tried to host a Mercurial HG repository using a Scriptalias.

ScriptAlias /hg/ \"htdocs/hgwebdir.cgi\"

If I go to Chrome it display the contents of the cgi

Answer 1

Assuming you have Python 2.6 installed and working, here are the steps that I took.

Obtain "mod_cgi.so" built for Apache 2.2 Win32 and place it in "C:\Program Files\VisualSVN Server\bin".

Paste the following in "C:\Program Files\VisualSVN Server\conf\httpd-custom.conf"

LoadModule cgi_module bin/mod_cgi.so
ScriptAliasMatch ^/hg(.*) "cgi-bin/hgweb.cgi$1"

Create the cgi-bin directory, "C:\Program Files\VisualSVN Server\cgi-bin". And place hgweb.cgi in it. Make sure it looks similar to the following:

#!c:/Python26/python.exe -u

import sys
sys.path.insert(0, "C:\Program Files\Mercurial\library")

import cgitb
cgitb.enable()

from mercurial.hgweb.hgwebdir_mod import hgwebdir
import mercurial.hgweb.wsgicgi as wsgicgi

application = hgwebdir('hgweb.config')
wsgicgi.launch(application)

Create a file called hgweb.config in the cgi-bin directory.

[paths]
/ = c:/HgRepositories/*

Copied "C:\Program Files\Mercurial\templates" to "C:\Program Files\Mercurial\library\templates".

Create "C:\HgRepositories" folder and "hg init c:\HgRepositories\test".

Restart VisualSVN Server, open browser, enjoy your Mercurial repository.